Today it’s your turn to ask the question. I can’t guarantee you’ll get an answer, but ask away anyway!
If you could ask any Skepchick any question, what would it be?
Today it’s your turn to ask the question. I can’t guarantee you’ll get an answer, but ask away anyway!
If you could ask any Skepchick any question, what would it be?
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Would you like to come up to my apartment and look at my etchings?
Ha, that was a joke. Really, here is one, I need some help. How do ghost orbs show up on digital photography? I need to explain it to my wife.
Ohh, ohh, I have another one. Why are skepchicks so much sexier than non-skepchicks?
This question is for Rebbeca; Will you marry me?
[Oh come on, you all knew that was coming. You’re all just jealous that I got in first. ;) ]
@Gabrielbrawley:
1. Yes, we would all love to see your etchings.
2. Orbs are merely light reflecting off of dust and moisture in the air
http://www.theorbzone.com
http://www.theorbzone.com/Orb_zoneBig.jpg
3. Because. We were intelligently designed that way.
@Gold:
You know, I was going to say the first person to propose to rebecca loses 10 pts.
I wish I did.
@Elyse: Thank you, this is just what I had been trying to find and failed to do so on my own.
What do skepchicks scream during orgasm? “On the other hand!” just doesn’t seem like it would trip off the tounge.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
@Geran Smith: To get to the other side.
Boxers or briefs?
If you could change on thing about men in general what would it be?
Frick. Make that “If you could change one thing about men in general what would it be?”
I asked this via Twitter and got a lovely response from carr2d2 a lil while ago, but…
Where were you ladies in high school when I was a lonely nerd girl?!
I change my question to: Are these questions going to be answered?
@Elyse: Fair call :) I’ll retroactivly accept the penalty.
On a more serious note though; It’s a common question but I’m not sure if it’s been asked here. Of all the quackery that’s out there if you could pick one that turned out to be true, what would it be and why?
Which two natural numbers, when cubed, add up to a cube of another natural number? (Besides zero.)
First one to answer this question gets 1 brownie point.
What’s the oddest link/question/comment anyone’s submitted on the contact page?
@Freiddie: 3 and 4
Any advice to a wanna be Skepchick?
Any advice to a wanna be kick ass blogger?
How do y’all find the time to keep up this blog, have social lives, and work?
@Detroitus: 3^3 + 4^3 = ???
Nope, doesn’t work. Try harder. :)
@Freiddie: I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this comment box is too narrow to contain.
@Freiddie: oh, you said ‘cubed’… For some reason I read it as squared… I thought that was too easy.
Stacey: Why are you so awesome? … Also, what time does your plane get in Wednesday?
If you could change a single event in your life, what would it be, and why?
Where do I start?
“isn’t it your turn to walk the dogs?”
“you drank how much?”
“that’s a kinky idea – do you think teek would like to join in?”
All of the above are normally followed by “are you going to stop hitting me soon?”
(the questions change when you marry one of them ;) )
can I have a cookie now?
About the value of patience and good nature in the face of nonsense and egotism. I can’t do it. How do you all do it? DO you all do it?
@Freiddie: 625, this was the cartalk puzzler.
@Freiddie: Oh wait, that was a different question.
@LOLkate: That question works really well beside your avatar.
@Gold: My answer is no, but only because you spelled my name wrong.
@davew: “If you could change one thing about men in general what would it be?â€
I’d give them the gift of menstruation.
@TheSkepticalMale: Trick question…it’s you that’s awesome, not me, as evidenced by your win of SOotM for the last two months. And you know when my last flight to Phoenix gets in. :)
@Kimbo Jones: “Are these questions going to be answered?”
This one was, so yes. :)
This is a fun topic. I’ll try to answer as many as possible!
@Rebecca: D’oh!
What is the answer to life, the universe and everything?
@Kimbo Jones:
Neither. Skepchicks don’t wear men’s underwear
@Gabrielbrawley:
Skepchick.org of course.
@Elyse: Never?
@Steve DeGroof:
I think the oddest link/question was after I posted about breastfeeding in public, Rebecca got an email from Hooter Hiders asking if they could link to us and put her on the mailing list.
Now Rebecca gets updates on all the latest in breastfeeding gear.
Of course, that’s just my favorite :)
Jen: What’s your favorite film?
@Gabrielbrawley:
nope. not even sam.
Elyse: What is your favorite alcoholic beverage?
Who is the cutest skepchick?
Rebecca: If you had to spend the rest of your life on a desert island with only one person, who would it be?
@Gabrielbrawley: Yeah, the process of the skepchicks themselves weighing in on who is the cutest skepchick could be really hot, if not somewhat volatile.
Who would win in a fight, a shark or a bear?
@Nicole: “Where were you ladies in high school when I was a lonely nerd girl?!”
I got here as soon as I could!
@Gold: “Of all the quackery that’s out there if you could pick one that turned out to be true, what would it be and why?”
Homeopathy. Think of all the pain and suffering we could cure with water!
Which skepchick is the most fun in a bar?
@Steve DeGroof: @Elyse mentioned the Hooter Hiders, which was pretty funny. Oddest link, though, would probably be the semen cookbook. Oh, and then there was the angry email I got from the correspondence school I blasted awhile back, which I think I still haven’t posted. Hm.
How do you take your coffee?
@Rebecca: What about the psychic who wanted a link from your site?
Do you have you’re towel?
@Nicole: Being a lonely nerd girl myself! Without the internet! I didn’t get access to the internet until I went to college. Then I got even nerdier.
@TheSkepticalMale: That’s a topic I could go on about forever. I used to default to The Third Man, but as I’ve gotten older I think my tastes have changed a bit. Let me think about it some more and come back after I get home from work. :)
@Elyse: hey, speak for yourself.
maybe i’m revealing too much, but i actually do for work.
Is this the right room for an argument?
@davew:
Back hair.
@jtradke:
Bear. He just has to get out of the water and have the shark try to chase him a few feet. Game over.
I have this internal vision of you all as witty and urbane sophisticates. But from some of your comments I get the impression that it wasn’t always so. When did you become happy with who you are so that you became such attrative and interesting people?
Are you a natural red head?
Do you think that feminists should push for more widespread gun ownership? To introduce the case in favor of more women owning guns, I can do no better than to quote Megan McArdle:
Agree? Disagree? Why?
Did you hear the name of Obama’s nominee for EPA? It wasn’t RFK jr.
@Rebecca “I’d give them the gift of menstruation.”
Couldn’t I just have my eyes put out?
@JSug:
I take my coffee either black or equal parts milk and coffee w/ 3 splenda
@jtradke: a bear, but only if he has an oxygen tank strapped to his body.
(mad props to tim3po for that gem)
@JSug: lots of sugar and the thickest cream you have.
…and that totally sounds naughty :p
@JSug:
Irish.
@Kaylia_Marie:
“Any advice to a wanna be Skepchick?”
Heh, wait for another Skepchick to retire? I’ve had this question from many others, and so many awesome ladies that would make wonderful writers. At some point I may add more on, but for right now your best bet is to become a kick-ass blogger in your own right.
“Any advice to a wanna be kick ass blogger?”
Oh, glad you asked! Find a niche. Commenter Krelnick, aka Tim Farley, made great points on his blog about the importance of new bloggers to grab little-publicized corners and claim them for skepticism. Someone recently wrote me about a new podcast where he reviews movies from a skeptical standpoint. Brilliant! Do something like that, but different.
“How do y’all find the time to keep up this blog, have social lives, and work?”
I’ve cleverly combined many of those things into one. I blog during lunch breaks at work, I work from home a lot as a freelance writer which allows for blog breaks, and my social outings mostly consist of Skeptics in the Pub meet-ups, lectures, and the like. Also I don’t really sleep (well, I sleep some: I get up at 5:30am and go to bed around midnight).
@davew: COTW! Especially for referencing a previous post.
@Fracture: “If you could change a single event in your life, what would it be, and why?”
Not a thing. It all led me here.
@Rebecca: Oh c’mon! … I think somebody’s been reading too much about determinism lately.
I have been curious:
The majority of the posters and, apparently, people who come to your get-togethers are male. Were you expecting that when you started this blog?
Okay. This is a three parter: In a round robin mud wrestling contest between all skepchicks (sam excluded) who would win?
@Freiddie: There are no natural numbers, unless one of them can equal 0. This is Fermat’s Last Theorem.
What is the last digit of pi?
What did you all want to be when you grew up?
(for us forum people too)
I wanted to be a writer :)
@Kaylia_Marie: Photographer for Playboy.
@Kaylia_Marie: An astronaut, a comedian, a computer programmer, a geneticist, a forensic anthropologist. In roughly that order.
Never ever a doctor or an archaeologist even though I get asked about those two careers ALL the freaking time.
@Steve DeGroof: +5 brownie points for you. I’m glad someone else also reads historical notes about famous people.
Can I have a free Skepchick pin-up calendar?
How many Skepchicks can dance on the head of a pin?
@Kaylia_Marie:
I wanted to be an actress and musician.
If you could pick a Sci-Fi alternate universe/reality to live in which one would it be? This can be either from a book, movie, or if really necessary a TV show.
@Rebecca: “Not a thing. It all led me here.”
I’ve been through a lot of crazy shit this year, made plenty of mistakes over the last several years (I did some stuff right, too!) and when people ask me if I would change any of that, I give the same answer you did. :-)
@Nicole: COTW seconded!!
@TheSkepticalMale:
I don’t think I have a favorite booze really. What I drink changes about once a month.
But I don’t think I’ve ever once been in a mood to turn down sparkling wine. I loves me some bubbles.
@Amanda: If an astronaut, a comedian, a computer programmer, a geneticist, and a forensic anthropologist walk into a bar, what’s the punchline?
@sethmanapio:
Ask the comedian.
#37 GabrielBrawley: 42. Everyone knows that. What is the ultimate question , however?
Skepchicks:
How angry would my wife be to see the pictures in the Skepchick Calendar (Female ed.) on my den wall?
@sethmanapio: “Yeah, but what a heavenly body!”
@sethmanapio: “Debugger? I hardly know ‘er!”
@QuestionAuthority:
Not at all. Especially when you tell her that she should do the 2010 calendar!
@sethmanapio: “Sure, just stabilise X00547 by splitting our flight path tangentially across the summate vector of 9GX78 with a 5 degree inertial correction.”
@Freiddie: Only 1 brownie point! Last I heard the going rate was a Noble Prize…
@Elyse: Seeing that she’s not a skeptic* and probably old enough to be your Mom, I don’t think that’ll work…
*She’s not exactly devout, but she is a Christian. Her grandmother on her mother’s side was one of the first female Baptist ministers ordained.
My answer to all of the above questions as a Teen Skepchick:
42
Thanks, and goodnight. I’ll be here all week.
*bows*
I have a questions: “If you could only save three books, currently in exsistance, from being destroyed by pan-galactic baddies intent on destroying all of humanity’s books, what would they be?”
And “What 7 records +1 luxury item, would you take to a desert island if you were going to one? (your luxury can’t be escape or a person)”
@russellsugden (100):
“Run! It’s a Vogon constructor ship! Find your towel and guide, not to mention 3 pints of beer and some peanuts!”
The first ten million years were the worst, the second ten million years were pretty bad, after the third ten million years, things really went downhill AND I’ve got this pain in the diodes all donw my left side. Here I am, Brain the size of a Planet, and they’ve got me holding the door open for them.
@russellsugden: ARRRGH! Bad Russel!
Flight? Or invisibility?
@Kaylia_Marie: A rocket scientist, astromomer, geologist, computer scientist or professional sport fisherman. I’ve sort of had it all work out. I’m in IT/Information Systems, fish for bass on my own time in Florida, have a 2.0″ refractor for planetary observing, shoot off bottle rockets, and my born again brother tells me that I have rocks in my head.
@sethmanapio: The quote was a classic from “The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy” by Marvin the robot. The avatar that QuestionAuthority uses is Marvin from the movie version.
@Clemarchaeopteryx:
“About the value of patience and good nature in the face of nonsense and egotism. I can’t do it. How do you all do it? DO you all do it?”
We all do it, just not all the time. We’re all human, and we all get frustrated. I suspect that my own personal key to happiness is laughing more than I get angry, so I try to do that. So far, it’s actually working.
Not that Marvin wrote the book, the quote was what Marvin said. Douglas Adams wrote the series. Adams also wrote “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” +.
@Kaylia_Marie: archaeologist (and i still haven’t given up on that)
@James Fox: oooh….good question!
hmm…i think i’d have to go with the whoniverse.
@Knurl: the quote was what Marvin said.
No. What Russel wrote was a misquote. What I wrote was the correct quote. I’m a total Hitchhikers geek since hearing the classic radio series on NPR when I was… I don’t know, 8, 9 years old?
I was also a member of the Rochester United Whovians from 1986-1989.
Me = Geek.
@Gabrielbrawley: “Who is the cutest skepchick?”
Isn’t it obvious? Whichever one you’re closest to.
@TheSkepticalMale: “Rebecca: If you had to spend the rest of your life on a desert island with only one person, who would it be?”
That’s tough. If I were going for pure survival, I’d say my friend Larry, because I know he’d be able to build us a house and a volleyball court and probably a Wii. And, he’d be fun to talk to for a few decades.
But if I want to die young while having crazy amounts of sex, I may choose someone else.
@JSug: “How do you take your coffee?”
“I like my coffee like I like my men: chopped up and in the freezer.”
Okay, serious question: What does “Victory” look like for the Skeptics movement, from a skepchicks perspective?
@russellsugden:i’d save american gods, the selfish gene, and the works of shakespeare.
hmmm…7 records…
nick cave and the bad seeds’ no more shall we part, ben folds’ songs for silverman (because i can’t live w/o jesusland), moby’s 18, beck’s midnight vultures, johnny cash’s at folsom prison, bowie’s heathen, promenade by the divine comedy.
and my luxury item would be my macbook, because i think i would die without it.
@Rebecca: Having positive things to focus on (like this blog) must help. When an individual (like myself) constantly concentrates on that which can only progess slowly, Brain Wreck begins to occur. What kind things do you find are uplifting in terms of general balance?
@Rebecca: or covered in bees.
@Gabrielbrawley: “I have this internal vision of you all as witty and urbane sophisticates. But from some of your comments I get the impression that it wasn’t always so. When did you become happy with who you are so that you became such attractive and interesting people?”
I’m not sure at what point I became attractive or interesting, because that’s something that happens in other people’s heads. When did I become happy with who I am? Hm. I think I always have been. Not continuously, of course, I get my many low periods, but in general, I’ve always been pretty sure of myself.
@TheSkepticalMale: “Oh c’mon! … I think somebody’s been reading too much about determinism lately.”
Oddly, this has been a feeling that preceded my interest in determinism by a long, long time. I just always figured that the mistakes I made in life were unavoidable in a way. If I didn’t date that asshole when I was 17 (for instance), I would’ve dated someone just like him when I was 27.
Rebecca, what do your co-workers think about your skeptical activism?
@Jacob Wintersmith: “Do you think that feminists should push for more widespread gun ownership?”
No, personally, I don’t see it as that big a deal. A woman could “equalize herself” with most men and staying safe by studying martial arts, keeping physically fit, staying aware her surroundings, and using her intelligence. A gun isn’t a magical instrument that gives us equal rights while keeping us safe.
@Finch: “The majority of the posters and, apparently, people who come to your get-togethers are male. Were you expecting that when you started this blog?”
Yep, it was a given that we’d have to work to get more women actively involved. I was a bit overly optimistic in that I had hoped we’d get a much higher percentage than most other blogs and forums, but I knew it would still be mostly guys, since I had expected Skepchick to appeal to both sexes. That said, I think we’re growing on the female side, and our events tend to skew younger and girlier than most, so I’m happy with our progress and direction.
@Kaylia_Marie: “What did you all want to be when you grew up?”
A writer, since I was 10. In that I am a success, but not so much if you consider my previous desired professions: lawyer, rock climber, ballerina. Yes, all at once.
@James Fox: “If you could pick a Sci-Fi alternate universe/reality to live in which one would it be?”
Futurama. No question.@russellsugden: “If you could only save three books, currently in exsistance, from being destroyed by pan-galactic baddies intent on destroying all of humanity’s books, what would they be?â€
Okay, that’s basically like Sophie’s Choice and I don’t think I can even answer it. How about The Complete Works of Shakespeare, Simon Singh’s Big Bang, and the Joy of Sex?
“What 7 records +1 luxury item, would you take to a desert island if you were going to one? (your luxury can’t be escape or a person)â€
Jesus. Off the top of my head, how about:
The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs
The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds
Beck’s Mutations
Built to Spill’s Keep It Like a Secret
Getz/Gilberto
Jeff Buckley’s Grace
and, um, the Philly Orchestra doing Rachmaninov’s The Bells?
and luxury: my MacBook with Wifi.
@sethmanapio: “What does “Victory†look like for the Skeptics movement, from a skepchicks perspective?”
There is no capital V “Victory,” just as there is no capital C “Certainty.” There are only the small, everyday victories as we work toward a more rational, happier world.
@sethmanapio: “Flight or invisibility?”
Invisibility. As John Hodgman noted, invisibility is for those of us with evil intentions.
@Knurl: “What kind things do you find are uplifting in terms of general balance?”
The emails I get from people who love learning new things. The stories of new scientific breakthroughs. Hearing kids ask good questions. More than anything, though, I’m uplifted by everyday happiness. It seems silly, but I derive as much joy as I can out of everything. The moon right now, it’s gigantic! I posted about it on Twitter the other night, and got a load of responses from people who were just as excited about it, about the fact that it was so big and close and bright. Things like that get me excited. I’m actually going to spend some more time on the topic of happiness and staying positive, in a blog post soon.
@Cygore: “Rebecca, what do your co-workers think about your skeptical activism?”
They think it’s great. They all have their various beliefs and whatnot, but all of them know what I do in my off-time and are very, very supportive. They voted for me in every round of the Talent Quest, they ask what I podcast about last night, they’re on the mailing list, and a few of them come to Skeptics in the Pub. They send me science news they think I’ll enjoy, and I help them out by explaining big science news like the LHC, or figuring out whether or not some company is a scam.
I work with very creative, curious people who enjoy learning more about the world. I’d say I was lucky, but I suspect that most people are interested in the universe, and if you give them a chance and engage them in conversation, they’ll be just as interested as you are in science and critical thinking.
@Jen:
The cuckoo clock!
@Rebecca: I appreciate your affection of the Futurrama show, but two dimensional sex??? And on top of that choosing The Joy of Sex, which was written for the folk in Mayberry, has me thinking you gotta get out more
@Rebecca: I’d hop and the bandwagon and ask you to marry me, but I’m gay. Will you be my faghag?
@Kaylia_Marie: “What did you all want to be when you grew up?â€
An animated cartoonist. I didn’t have the confidence to stand up to my pragmatic dad and go to art school, though. So I bounced around to different things, and, oddly enough, ended up in a career that didn’t even really exist when I was in high school: web design. But it’s perfect for me, so it worked out. I also always wanted to write. That’s worked out too, but, again, not exactly as I envisioned it.
@Jacob Wintersmith: “Do you think that feminists should push for more widespread gun ownership?”
I’m not pushy, but I don’t have a problem with it. I think there is something to be said for allowing access to any means necessary for women to protect themselves.
@JSug: “How do you take your coffee?”
Why, are you buying? ;) In gigantic quantities and as strong and black as possible.
@James Fox: “If you could pick a Sci-Fi alternate universe/reality to live in which one would it be?â€
Kind of lame, but I’ve wanted to be a Jedi since I was thirteen. No reason to switch now, I guess. If I could narrow in on the time frame with Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan, then even better.
@wytworm: “The cuckoo clock!”
I’ve seen that film upwards of thirty times, but that speech never gets old, does it? :)
@James Fox: 2-dimensional sex with really funny conversation? Sure!
And you got me, I’ve never actually read Joy of Sex. The question was pretty much impossible to answer so I figured I’d go random.
As to what I wanted to be when I grew up…I always wanted to be an airline pilot. I got partway there before health issues put an end to that dream for good. I did get as far as my Private license and was working on my Commercial/Instrument when I had to quit. :-(
So I did the next best thing and went into airline ground operations. That did me in physically, though.
I did go through periods when I was very young of the usual “1950’s boy” things like soldier, sailor, etc. None stuck for long. I wanted to be a Starship Captain, but seeing as the world has disappointed me by not creating the USS Enterprise yet, that was a non-starter. :-D
I had the talent for writing, but not the interest until I got to my 30’s. I’m too old to go through Jedi training, I’m afraid. I wouldn’t do too good standing on one hand in the middle of a swamp with Yoda sitting on my feet.
Coffee? High-quality Arabica only (like Gevalia), with nonfat cream. In large quantities. As frequently as possible.
Alternative universe? Star Trek: TNG. Dr. Crusher could cure my ailments and I could attend Starfleet Academy. I wouldn’t let McCoy treat a hangnail. He kills everyone he touches except Kirk. (“He’s dead, Jim!” “Jim, he’s dead!” “It’s dead, Jim!” “She’s dead, Jim!”) Don’t they have medical board reviews in the 24th century!?! Christ, even his office plants are dead! :-D
Did I leave the iron on?
Have any of you thought of writing a science book aimed at young girls, sort of a science version of the math books written by Danica McKeller?
Not so much a question for Elyse, but a blog request:
Elyse, I remember reading in a previous post that it took you a long time to conceive the Moose. My husband and I have been working on our first for about nine months with no luck, and we’re about to start getting poked and prodded to find out why. I’d love to hear your thoughts on all the woo that surrounds trying to conceive and pregnancy (“Try acupuncture! Try these herbs! Stand on your head! Just relax and it’ll happen!”).
Thanks! :)
@russellsugden: A satelite phone with a built in solar charger to call for help until someone showed up to save my ass.
@Rebecca: Ya, unless you were one of the winners in an epic space opera type novel. Most of the good sci-fi world are in the throes of devolution, about to be vaporized or under the oppression of a mad/evil galactic warlord. I suppose Futurrama isn’t that bad of a choice. And you could be snarky and witty while having two dimensional sex! (not to mention robots never need a break)
mythbusters or bullshit?
@Elyse:
I’d be entitled to agree, although I doubt the shark would get that far onto the shore.
@carr2d2:
I completely disagree here, only because a bear, even with an oxygen tank, would not be maneuverable enough in the water to take on the fast and versatile shark. Also, though bears have rather long and sharp claws, a shark’s flesh is rather thick and can take a fair bit of damage. Of course this all largely is based on the type of shark and type of bear, I am assuming that the question relates to sharks like the bull, the white and the tiger, all of which would easily be able to take on a bear.
@carr2d2: The shark might even have a frickin’ laser on it’s head! Or machine gun nipples….Wait, do sharks have nipples? :-D
Where’s those disgruntled sea bass when you need them?!?
@Rebecca: “I like my coffee like I like my men: chopped up and in the freezer.â€
You chop up coffee? I just use a grinder. So I believe the correct punch line is “Ground up and in the freezer.” Wait, did I just correct Rebecca? If I don’t write in within the next week it will be because she tracked down my avatar and killed it in the night.
Personally I drink my coffee the way I live my life. Bitter and lukewarm.
@Jacob Wintersmith: One of my favorite statistics from the NEJM is that in homes that keep firearms for protection you are 43 times more likely to have a family member or friend killed by that gun, than you are to kill an assailant.
Also while in the Coast Guard I had law enforcement duties in which I had to carry a gun. During our training it was drilled into our head that if we didn’t have our gun out at the moment of an attack (say someone was coming after us with a knife or was trying to assault us) we wouldn’t have enough time to get it out and use it. Rebecca is right, it is better for women, and even men, to take self defense courses and stay in shape. Pepper spray is good to. If you accidently pepper spray a loved one you may be able to laugh at it years later. Not so much with accidently shooting them.
@skepticalhippie: Along similar lines, to minimize the even higher risk of drowning, I always keep my pool and its water locked up in completely different parts of the house.
@skepticalhippie: I use a French press, so I prefer it so coarsely ground that one could say “chopped.” Therefore I am always right. Always!
@killyosaur42: I completely disagree here, only because a bear, even with an oxygen tank, would not be maneuverable enough in the water to take on the fast and versatile shark.
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Minor quibble… I would think that ESPECIALLY with an oxygen tank, the bear is no maneuverable enough.
So, I looked this up. It seems that adult Polar bears top out about where Tiger Sharks start, about 3 meters and in the neighborhood of 3oo kg (about 400 for the shark).
Then I came up with some specs for a good cage match that would allow both animals some advantages and some disadvantages.
Then I realized that, sadly, they are both losing… but the bear slightly more so. The Polar Bear is “vulnerable” where the tiger shark is the slightly more optimistic “near threatened”.
@sethmanapio: I think a kola bear would kick their asses.
@sethmanapio: whoops I meant a gummi bear would kick their asses.
@Rebecca: A coffee connoisseur, I see. A lady after my own heart.
@SkepticalHippie: Haven’t you learned yet? Women are ALWAYS right. Skepchicks doubly so. Rebecca infinitely so. :-D
I see your Great White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and raise you a Carcharodon megalodon. ;-)
Can you say, “fish food?”
@llysenwi:
You’re absolutely right, a swimming pool is far more likely to drown a friend or love one then to be used for its intended purpose. Swimming pools exist to violently drown intruders right?
@skepticalhippie: “Swimming pools exist to violently drown intruders right?” Mine does, though to be fair the guys who filled it with crocodiles referred to it as a moat.
@QuestionAuthority: ok, you win by virtue of austin powers logic. i can’t beat sharks w/ frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads.
@Rebecca:
“That’s tough. If I were going for pure survival, I’d say my friend Larry, because I know he’d be able to build us a house and a volleyball court and probably a Wii. And, he’d be fun to talk to for a few decades.
But if I want to die young while having crazy amounts of sex, I may choose someone else.”
First, sex with Larry isn’t so bad.
Second, if you were going to be on a deserted island together the rest of your lives, I would understand, and I would only use the voodoo dolls occasionally to soothe my betrayed and bitter heart.
Do you like to snuggle?